[Postgame Thread] Indiana Defeats Northwestern 29-23

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Northwestern	0	0	7	16	23
Indiana	2	10	3	14	29

[u/oof_im_dying]

Obviously IU is nowhere near as good as 2025, probably not even as good as 2024, but let's be real this is still a top 5% team in IU football history so I will happily savor the wins when they come, and this was a decent, hard fought win.

[u/EOstby → u/oof_im_dying]

This is the correct answer on all fronts.

[u/EOstby → u/[deleted]]

Some of us have been Indiana fans long enough to remember a time when ‘mediocrity’ would have been a major improvement over what we actually had. I’ll take winning football games over not winning football games, period.

[u/Jpon9 → u/[deleted]]

We're not Coach Cig, we're allowed to be happy

[u/jordinoo → u/[deleted]]

Hey, they could be a blue blood that chokes in the playoffs every year and hasn't won a national championship since 1988, so it could be worse.

[u/Lord_Soranos → u/oof_im_dying]

I think Northwestern is good this year, even if Indiana isn't going to repeat they can definitely make the playoffs.

[u/toomanyshoeshelp → u/oof_im_dying]

1000%. We’re also building for the future.

[u/naetaejabroni → u/oof_im_dying]

Top 1%.

Indiana has 127 seasons of college football. If they get to at least 9 wins this year, it's still a top 1% Indiana team.

[u/fskier1 → u/naetaejabroni]

3rd best out of 127 seasons would clock in at abt top 2%

[u/naetaejabroni → u/fskier1]

You can see I wasn't a math major

[u/SpiffyBlizzard → u/naetaejabroni]

It’s ok we can see by your flairs

[u/kilroy94 → u/oof_im_dying]

Against what appears to be a very competent team on an upward trajectory. Both sets of fans can walk away reasonably satisfied imo, which is a rare thing.

[u/EdselFordEdsel → u/oof_im_dying]

I'll take a Pop Tart Bowl if we don't make the playoffs. How many other teams have back to back champions and peoples champions?

[u/Distinct-Peanut-6703 → u/oof_im_dying]

Hear hear!

[u/shartoberfest → u/oof_im_dying]

People are going into this year expecting another perfect season. 

[u/EWACM → u/oof_im_dying]

QB will be a problem against the best teams. He just doesn’t see it/execute like Fernando or even Kurtis.

[u/FloatCopper → u/oof_im_dying]

Yep.

Good win. Not the way you draw it up, but made enough plays against a decent Big Ten team.

Even if we had lost this one, I still would enjoy this ride. We have a good team. But each week have to put it on the field. Very few gimmes in the conference.

[u/Responsible_Cut_7837 → u/oof_im_dying]

I think this team is better than 24 nw just that good and we played a bad game from the jump had to throw gameplan out after turbo got injured remember if Hoover hits Becker on 2 plays we are talking about a big blowout